Word: ceylon
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...found only in the jungles of Ceylon, is a direct evolutionary link between the oversized, stinging, primitive ants of Australia and the highly developed ant subfamilies familiar in this country...
About 1000 species were collected on the expedition, including 100 unknown before. In addition to the discovery of the Ceylon ant, the expedition fulfilled two major purposes; expanding the insect holdings of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and collecting and studying data on the distribution and behavior of ants from Fiji to Australia...
...week's end Dulles flew on to Ceylon, where he enjoyed a swim and the knowledge that "we have no serious problems with the government of Ceylon...
...Thirteen non-Communist nations: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Spain. Five Communist states: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Outer Mongolia. * Urged by John Foster Dulles in 1950, while Republican adviser to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, on the ground that "the U.N. will best serve the cause of peace if its Assembly is representative of what the world actually is, and not merely representative of the parts that we like...
...Ceylon it is called parangi, in the Fiji Islands coco, in the Gold Coast dube. By these and some 80 other dread names, yaws is known the world over as a painful, crippling and highly contagious disease that covers the body with sores and eventually eats away the outer flesh. Half its estimated 50 million victims, most of whom caught it as children, are in Africa...